Get Fit & Lose Weight – Emotional Jeet Kune Do

Every day I help clients discover & push the buttons that they need to push…. if they are going to…

Get the exercise their body needs

Eat the food their body needs

Think the thoughts they need to think and

Feel the feelings they need to feel

…in order to become the healthiest, fittest, sexiest, most awesomest selves they can possibly be.

Here’s an example of the plan I used to help one of my clients lose 185 lbs over the past two years.

319lbs – 185 lbs = 134 lbs

Small carb-free meals for breakfast and lunch

For example, breakfast would be 3 scrambled eggs with butter AND lunch would be a small Greek salad with feta, olives, lettuce & tomatoes – no dressing.

My reasoning behind this approach was that she was a busy executive and was very, very busy throughout the day. The combination of a busy day and not being around food made it “easy” to focus on work and forget about food.

[box type=”note”]It took a few weeks for “easy” to become easy. She hated me a little bit at first.[/box]

Large Paleo meal at dinner after her evening workout

1 big plate full of paleo-friendly food after her workout. That means loads of veggies and a good sized piece of animal protein. She was also allowed to have a piece of fruit for dinner. One of her favorites was the sauteed apples I posted about here.

She was full after dinner every single night.

Supplements

1 tbsp of fish oil every morning

Probiotics with breakfast

Digestive enzymes with each meal

Multi-vitamin and minerals

Workout energy drink – I had her use Scivation Xtend

Emotional Jeet Kune Do

My client is a very, very smart woman. And very self aware. So when I told her that she WOULD transform her body into something even more awesome than what she was asking for…she told me that I was full of shit. Literally…she told me I was full of shit.

And after I finished laughing my ass off…I explained to her that over the 20+ years I have been training people, I have learned two things:

Massive physical change is theoretically possible for just about everyone

I am really, really good at making the theoretical happen

And to make the theoretical come true, I employ a system of emotional Jeet Kune Do on my clients. And like Bruce Lee, my emotional Jeet Kune Do is a style with no style.

This means that since we’re all unique creatures with our own individual thoughts, feeling, emotions and peculiarities…there is no fitness/diet plan that will produce awesome results for all of us.

We all have our own unique buttons that need to be pushed to get us to break and replace our bad habits.

And in her case, I asked her to lie to herself.

First, I asked her to imagine herself as a total freak of nature…super healthy, super fit, super sexy, etc…

Second, I asked for her reaction to this visual picture

She came back with another “you’re full of shit” comment

After which, I went into my spiel about being good at making transforming people and that I truly 100% believed that we can make this change with her body. And that the biggest impediment was that she didn’t believe me.

Here’s where the Jeet Kune Do comes in.

I asked her to start lying to herself

Whenever she doubted my plan…or her ability to not eat ice cream…or that she would ever have a butt you could bounce quarters off of…I wanted her to:

Accept her doubts (past history + emotions will not be ignored or minimized)

Get angry and tell the doubts to “Fuck Off…because she’s going to do exactly what those doubts say she can’t”

And the reason I think this worked for her is because in her business career she has been faced many times with people, boards, companies & governments who told her that she couldn’t do what she wanted to do.

And most of the time, she responded by getting angry, getting to work and kicking their asses (after telling them to fuck off…inside her head)

The essence of emotional Jeet Kune Do is to search for your buttons…not your friend’s buttons, or the fitness guru’s buttons…YOUR BUTTONS.

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2 thoughts on “Get Fit & Lose Weight – Emotional Jeet Kune Do”

Good article (like always ;) ). It so true that everyone is different and needs his/her individual “carrot” to stay motivated for doing the right things right (eg exercise/nutrition or work). Sometimes it might be hard to find your own “carrot” by yourself, but luckily we can ask friends or trainers like Doug who listen carefully to our words and are able to find our “carrots” for us…

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If you live in Toronto and want to maximize your @healthhabits by working 1 on 1 with me, email me at info@healthhabits.ca.

Training takes place in your home and/or gym. While I provide all the necessary fitness equipment, I will gladly incorporate your personal fitness equipment into your PERSONAL fitness program design.

My rate is $2000 per month which includes on average 13 x 1hr. training sessions per month + 7 hours of travel + communication + program design

Unlike other trainers, I don't expect to work with my clients for longer than 6 months. During our sessions, I do a LOT of teaching while you sweat.

In a few months, I fully expect you to:

1. Know how to design an amazing fitness program
2. Know how to best feed yourself to maximize your health & fitness
3. Know which of your buttons need to be pushed to keep you consistent with your healthhabits

Don't get me wrong...I am more than happy to keep working with you as long as you desire, BUT I have never been a fan of trainers who refuse to educate their clients just so they can keep cashing cheques :(

NOTE: As of Jan/2015, I have zero availability, but by March, I should have one or two spaces available for new clients.